Taylor Meeting at Wootton

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Anonymous wrote:Honest question-- why do people care about the bus depot? What's the issue with that?

Where do you live? You want 250 diesel school buses starting up at 4 AM next to your home? You want 250 school buses on the road by your home all day? Offer up your street for a MCPS bus depot and Taylor will be thrilled.

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Driving a bus is hard.

But I used to commute by a MCPS bus depot. And the bus drivers block off traffic with their buses to help other buses drive in and out of the depot. Also they don't follow traffic rules, ie sit in the left lane and go straight on a left turn only lane.

So can imagine that it would cause issues during the times the buses come and leave the depot and putting one in a residential neighborhood doesn't seem like it's the best idea.

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Taylor is putting two bus depots in residential neighborhoods. One in the Northwest Cluster and one in the Wootton Cluster.

If anyone thinks that a bus depot will be approved on Cavanaugh Drive I've got a castle to sell you. The homeowners in Potomac Glen will fight big time over this. It's one thing to move a school, it's another thing to dump 200 school buses in a residential neighborhood. Besides, the land on Cavanaugh was set aside for a school not a bus depot. I highly doubt either the bus depot or the school are built anytime in the near future.

Where exactly is the site? At the intersection of Cavanaugh and Shady Grove Road? Across from the pool?

Yes, never going to be a bus depot there. There is not a single bus depot in the county in the midst of a residential neighborhood. Frankly, it would be located between Potomac Glen and the Willows. Add in the high volume of dump trucks already going up and down Shady Grove Road-nope not happening.

They are unquestionably going to use the old wootton site for the bus depot. Interior's a hazard, but that parking lot is just right.

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Anonymous wrote:Honest question-- why do people care about the bus depot? What's the issue with that?

Where do you live? You want 250 diesel school buses starting up at 4 AM next to your home? You want 250 school buses on the road by your home all day? Offer up your street for a MCPS bus depot and Taylor will be thrilled.

+1

Driving a bus is hard.

But I used to commute by a MCPS bus depot. And the bus drivers block off traffic with their buses to help other buses drive in and out of the depot. Also they don't follow traffic rules, ie sit in the left lane and go straight on a left turn only lane.

So can imagine that it would cause issues during the times the buses come and leave the depot and putting one in a residential neighborhood doesn't seem like it's the best idea.

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Taylor is putting two bus depots in residential neighborhoods. One in the Northwest Cluster and one in the Wootton Cluster.

👋👋 hi @parents coalition.

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Anonymous wrote:Honest question-- why do people care about the bus depot? What's the issue with that?

Where do you live? You want 250 diesel school buses starting up at 4 AM next to your home? You want 250 school buses on the road by your home all day? Offer up your street for a MCPS bus depot and Taylor will be thrilled.

+1

Driving a bus is hard.

But I used to commute by a MCPS bus depot. And the bus drivers block off traffic with their buses to help other buses drive in and out of the depot. Also they don't follow traffic rules, ie sit in the left lane and go straight on a left turn only lane.

So can imagine that it would cause issues during the times the buses come and leave the depot and putting one in a residential neighborhood doesn't seem like it's the best idea.

Two

Taylor is putting two bus depots in residential neighborhoods. One in the Northwest Cluster and one in the Wootton Cluster.

If anyone thinks that a bus depot will be approved on Cavanaugh Drive I've got a castle to sell you. The homeowners in Potomac Glen will fight big time over this. It's one thing to move a school, it's another thing to dump 200 school buses in a residential neighborhood. Besides, the land on Cavanaugh was set aside for a school not a bus depot. I highly doubt either the bus depot or the school are built anytime in the near future.

Where exactly is the site? At the intersection of Cavanaugh and Shady Grove Road? Across from the pool?

Yes, never going to be a bus depot there. There is not a single bus depot in the county in the midst of a residential neighborhood. Frankly, it would be located between Potomac Glen and the Willows. Add in the high volume of dump trucks already going up and down Shady Grove Road-nope not happening.

They are unquestionably going to use the old wootton site for the bus depot. Interior's a hazard, but that parking lot is just right.

Not usable at all. School parking lots can not be used to park buses. That fact was established years ago. This is a new site with $70M in funding from Taylor.

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Anonymous wrote:Honest question-- why do people care about the bus depot? What's the issue with that?

Where do you live? You want 250 diesel school buses starting up at 4 AM next to your home? You want 250 school buses on the road by your home all day? Offer up your street for a MCPS bus depot and Taylor will be thrilled.

+1

Driving a bus is hard.

But I used to commute by a MCPS bus depot. And the bus drivers block off traffic with their buses to help other buses drive in and out of the depot. Also they don't follow traffic rules, ie sit in the left lane and go straight on a left turn only lane.

So can imagine that it would cause issues during the times the buses come and leave the depot and putting one in a residential neighborhood doesn't seem like it's the best idea.

Two

Taylor is putting two bus depots in residential neighborhoods. One in the Northwest Cluster and one in the Wootton Cluster.

If anyone thinks that a bus depot will be approved on Cavanaugh Drive I've got a castle to sell you. The homeowners in Potomac Glen will fight big time over this. It's one thing to move a school, it's another thing to dump 200 school buses in a residential neighborhood. Besides, the land on Cavanaugh was set aside for a school not a bus depot. I highly doubt either the bus depot or the school are built anytime in the near future.

Where exactly is the site? At the intersection of Cavanaugh and Shady Grove Road? Across from the pool?

Yes, never going to be a bus depot there. There is not a single bus depot in the county in the midst of a residential neighborhood. Frankly, it would be located between Potomac Glen and the Willows. Add in the high volume of dump trucks already going up and down Shady Grove Road-nope not happening.

They are unquestionably going to use the old wootton site for the bus depot. Interior's a hazard, but that parking lot is just right.

Not usable at all. School parking lots can not be used to park buses. That fact was established years ago. This is a new site with $70M in funding from Taylor.

Care to share the location of this $70 million bus depot? Because w/o this information, I am guessing Wootton may have buses in its parking lot when students exit it.

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Anonymous wrote:Honest question-- why do people care about the bus depot? What's the issue with that?

Where do you live? You want 250 diesel school buses starting up at 4 AM next to your home? You want 250 school buses on the road by your home all day? Offer up your street for a MCPS bus depot and Taylor will be thrilled.

+1

Driving a bus is hard.

But I used to commute by a MCPS bus depot. And the bus drivers block off traffic with their buses to help other buses drive in and out of the depot. Also they don't follow traffic rules, ie sit in the left lane and go straight on a left turn only lane.

So can imagine that it would cause issues during the times the buses come and leave the depot and putting one in a residential neighborhood doesn't seem like it's the best idea.

Two

Taylor is putting two bus depots in residential neighborhoods. One in the Northwest Cluster and one in the Wootton Cluster.

If anyone thinks that a bus depot will be approved on Cavanaugh Drive I've got a castle to sell you. The homeowners in Potomac Glen will fight big time over this. It's one thing to move a school, it's another thing to dump 200 school buses in a residential neighborhood. Besides, the land on Cavanaugh was set aside for a school not a bus depot. I highly doubt either the bus depot or the school are built anytime in the near future.

Where exactly is the site? At the intersection of Cavanaugh and Shady Grove Road? Across from the pool?

Yes, never going to be a bus depot there. There is not a single bus depot in the county in the midst of a residential neighborhood. Frankly, it would be located between Potomac Glen and the Willows. Add in the high volume of dump trucks already going up and down Shady Grove Road-nope not happening.

They are unquestionably going to use the old wootton site for the bus depot. Interior's a hazard, but that parking lot is just right.

Not usable at all. School parking lots can not be used to park buses. That fact was established years ago. This is a new site with $70M in funding from Taylor.

So CIP/capital improvement budget is different then the rest of the school budget. So that is why the money for the regional programs won't impact CIP or vice versa.

There is 50 million dollars allocated for the renovation of Cold Spring. Which many posters say is underenrolled and potentially slated to close.

But now we also have 70 million for the bus depot? So the other one is $70 million too?

Exactly what is wrong with the current bus depots they are trying to replace? I know they said overcrowding was an issue but it looks like it's still being used.

But that's $190 million there. And the cost to renovate Wootton is $300 million, Magruder is probably around that range too? They really can't find the money to renovate either of the schools?

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Anonymous wrote:Honest question-- why do people care about the bus depot? What's the issue with that?

Where do you live? You want 250 diesel school buses starting up at 4 AM next to your home? You want 250 school buses on the road by your home all day? Offer up your street for a MCPS bus depot and Taylor will be thrilled.

+1

Driving a bus is hard.

But I used to commute by a MCPS bus depot. And the bus drivers block off traffic with their buses to help other buses drive in and out of the depot. Also they don't follow traffic rules, ie sit in the left lane and go straight on a left turn only lane.

So can imagine that it would cause issues during the times the buses come and leave the depot and putting one in a residential neighborhood doesn't seem like it's the best idea.

Two

Taylor is putting two bus depots in residential neighborhoods. One in the Northwest Cluster and one in the Wootton Cluster.

If anyone thinks that a bus depot will be approved on Cavanaugh Drive I've got a castle to sell you. The homeowners in Potomac Glen will fight big time over this. It's one thing to move a school, it's another thing to dump 200 school buses in a residential neighborhood. Besides, the land on Cavanaugh was set aside for a school not a bus depot. I highly doubt either the bus depot or the school are built anytime in the near future.

Where exactly is the site? At the intersection of Cavanaugh and Shady Grove Road? Across from the pool?

Yes, never going to be a bus depot there. There is not a single bus depot in the county in the midst of a residential neighborhood. Frankly, it would be located between Potomac Glen and the Willows. Add in the high volume of dump trucks already going up and down Shady Grove Road-nope not happening.

They are unquestionably going to use the old wootton site for the bus depot. Interior's a hazard, but that parking lot is just right.

Not usable at all. School parking lots can not be used to park buses. That fact was established years ago. This is a new site with $70M in funding from Taylor.

So CIP/capital improvement budget is different then the rest of the school budget. So that is why the money for the regional programs won't impact CIP or vice versa.

There is 50 million dollars allocated for the renovation of Cold Spring. Which many posters say is underenrolled and potentially slated to close.

But now we also have 70 million for the bus depot? So the other one is $70 million too?

Exactly what is wrong with the current bus depots they are trying to replace? I know they said overcrowding was an issue but it looks like it's still being used.

But that's $190 million there. And the cost to renovate Wootton is $300 million, Magruder is probably around that range too? They really can't find the money to renovate either of the schools?

This is one of the many reasons why people don't buy that they could find the money for Wootton and Magruder renovations if they actually wanted to.

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Anonymous wrote:Honest question-- why do people care about the bus depot? What's the issue with that?

Where do you live? You want 250 diesel school buses starting up at 4 AM next to your home? You want 250 school buses on the road by your home all day? Offer up your street for a MCPS bus depot and Taylor will be thrilled.

+1

Driving a bus is hard.

But I used to commute by a MCPS bus depot. And the bus drivers block off traffic with their buses to help other buses drive in and out of the depot. Also they don't follow traffic rules, ie sit in the left lane and go straight on a left turn only lane.

So can imagine that it would cause issues during the times the buses come and leave the depot and putting one in a residential neighborhood doesn't seem like it's the best idea.

Two

Taylor is putting two bus depots in residential neighborhoods. One in the Northwest Cluster and one in the Wootton Cluster.

If anyone thinks that a bus depot will be approved on Cavanaugh Drive I've got a castle to sell you. The homeowners in Potomac Glen will fight big time over this. It's one thing to move a school, it's another thing to dump 200 school buses in a residential neighborhood. Besides, the land on Cavanaugh was set aside for a school not a bus depot. I highly doubt either the bus depot or the school are built anytime in the near future.

Where exactly is the site? At the intersection of Cavanaugh and Shady Grove Road? Across from the pool?

Yes, never going to be a bus depot there. There is not a single bus depot in the county in the midst of a residential neighborhood. Frankly, it would be located between Potomac Glen and the Willows. Add in the high volume of dump trucks already going up and down Shady Grove Road-nope not happening.

They are unquestionably going to use the old wootton site for the bus depot. Interior's a hazard, but that parking lot is just right.

Not usable at all. School parking lots can not be used to park buses. That fact was established years ago. This is a new site with $70M in funding from Taylor.

So CIP/capital improvement budget is different then the rest of the school budget. So that is why the money for the regional programs won't impact CIP or vice versa.

There is 50 million dollars allocated for the renovation of Cold Spring. Which many posters say is underenrolled and potentially slated to close.

But now we also have 70 million for the bus depot? So the other one is $70 million too?

Exactly what is wrong with the current bus depots they are trying to replace? I know they said overcrowding was an issue but it looks like it's still being used.

But that's $190 million there. And the cost to renovate Wootton is $300 million, Magruder is probably around that range too? They really can't find the money to renovate either of the schools?

The county would like to have the Shady Grove depot property to use for developing housing- more tax dollars to the county. So MCPS is on the hunt for a new bus depot location.

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Anonymous wrote:Honest question-- why do people care about the bus depot? What's the issue with that?

Where do you live? You want 250 diesel school buses starting up at 4 AM next to your home? You want 250 school buses on the road by your home all day? Offer up your street for a MCPS bus depot and Taylor will be thrilled.

+1

Driving a bus is hard.

But I used to commute by a MCPS bus depot. And the bus drivers block off traffic with their buses to help other buses drive in and out of the depot. Also they don't follow traffic rules, ie sit in the left lane and go straight on a left turn only lane.

So can imagine that it would cause issues during the times the buses come and leave the depot and putting one in a residential neighborhood doesn't seem like it's the best idea.

Two

Taylor is putting two bus depots in residential neighborhoods. One in the Northwest Cluster and one in the Wootton Cluster.

If anyone thinks that a bus depot will be approved on Cavanaugh Drive I've got a castle to sell you. The homeowners in Potomac Glen will fight big time over this. It's one thing to move a school, it's another thing to dump 200 school buses in a residential neighborhood. Besides, the land on Cavanaugh was set aside for a school not a bus depot. I highly doubt either the bus depot or the school are built anytime in the near future.

Where exactly is the site? At the intersection of Cavanaugh and Shady Grove Road? Across from the pool?

Yes, never going to be a bus depot there. There is not a single bus depot in the county in the midst of a residential neighborhood. Frankly, it would be located between Potomac Glen and the Willows. Add in the high volume of dump trucks already going up and down Shady Grove Road-nope not happening.

They are unquestionably going to use the old wootton site for the bus depot. Interior's a hazard, but that parking lot is just right.

Not usable at all. School parking lots can not be used to park buses. That fact was established years ago. This is a new site with $70M in funding from Taylor.

So CIP/capital improvement budget is different then the rest of the school budget. So that is why the money for the regional programs won't impact CIP or vice versa.

There is 50 million dollars allocated for the renovation of Cold Spring. Which many posters say is underenrolled and potentially slated to close.

But now we also have 70 million for the bus depot? So the other one is $70 million too?

Exactly what is wrong with the current bus depots they are trying to replace? I know they said overcrowding was an issue but it looks like it's still being used.

But that's $190 million there. And the cost to renovate Wootton is $300 million, Magruder is probably around that range too? They really can't find the money to renovate either of the schools?

The county would like to have the Shady Grove depot property to use for developing housing- more tax dollars to the county. So MCPS is on the hunt for a new bus depot location.

Sure would be nice if Montgomery County tried to bring in jobs instead of just getting revenue from property taxes.

ie not considered for Amazon HQ, Hilton, FBI headquarters, General Dynamics, Foot Locker, etc. And Discovery decided to leave.

But it's okay. We have declining enrollment, so have the space for the residents in the new developments to fill the schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Honest question-- why do people care about the bus depot? What's the issue with that?

Where do you live? You want 250 diesel school buses starting up at 4 AM next to your home? You want 250 school buses on the road by your home all day? Offer up your street for a MCPS bus depot and Taylor will be thrilled.

+1

Driving a bus is hard.

But I used to commute by a MCPS bus depot. And the bus drivers block off traffic with their buses to help other buses drive in and out of the depot. Also they don't follow traffic rules, ie sit in the left lane and go straight on a left turn only lane.

So can imagine that it would cause issues during the times the buses come and leave the depot and putting one in a residential neighborhood doesn't seem like it's the best idea.

Two

Taylor is putting two bus depots in residential neighborhoods. One in the Northwest Cluster and one in the Wootton Cluster.

If anyone thinks that a bus depot will be approved on Cavanaugh Drive I've got a castle to sell you. The homeowners in Potomac Glen will fight big time over this. It's one thing to move a school, it's another thing to dump 200 school buses in a residential neighborhood. Besides, the land on Cavanaugh was set aside for a school not a bus depot. I highly doubt either the bus depot or the school are built anytime in the near future.

With due respect, the homeowners in Potomac Glen fighting big time doesn’t seem to have amounted to anything.

The question seems to be about zoning. I don’t know what the site Wootton sits on is zoned for, but my guess is they can turn it into a bus depot?

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Anonymous wrote:Honest question-- why do people care about the bus depot? What's the issue with that?

Where do you live? You want 250 diesel school buses starting up at 4 AM next to your home? You want 250 school buses on the road by your home all day? Offer up your street for a MCPS bus depot and Taylor will be thrilled.

+1

Driving a bus is hard.

But I used to commute by a MCPS bus depot. And the bus drivers block off traffic with their buses to help other buses drive in and out of the depot. Also they don't follow traffic rules, ie sit in the left lane and go straight on a left turn only lane.

So can imagine that it would cause issues during the times the buses come and leave the depot and putting one in a residential neighborhood doesn't seem like it's the best idea.

Two

Taylor is putting two bus depots in residential neighborhoods. One in the Northwest Cluster and one in the Wootton Cluster.

If anyone thinks that a bus depot will be approved on Cavanaugh Drive I've got a castle to sell you. The homeowners in Potomac Glen will fight big time over this. It's one thing to move a school, it's another thing to dump 200 school buses in a residential neighborhood. Besides, the land on Cavanaugh was set aside for a school not a bus depot. I highly doubt either the bus depot or the school are built anytime in the near future.

Where exactly is the site? At the intersection of Cavanaugh and Shady Grove Road? Across from the pool?

Yes, never going to be a bus depot there. There is not a single bus depot in the county in the midst of a residential neighborhood. Frankly, it would be located between Potomac Glen and the Willows. Add in the high volume of dump trucks already going up and down Shady Grove Road-nope not happening.

They are unquestionably going to use the old wootton site for the bus depot. Interior's a hazard, but that parking lot is just right.

Not usable at all. School parking lots can not be used to park buses. That fact was established years ago. This is a new site with $70M in funding from Taylor.

So CIP/capital improvement budget is different then the rest of the school budget. So that is why the money for the regional programs won't impact CIP or vice versa.

There is 50 million dollars allocated for the renovation of Cold Spring. Which many posters say is underenrolled and potentially slated to close.

But now we also have 70 million for the bus depot? So the other one is $70 million too?

Exactly what is wrong with the current bus depots they are trying to replace? I know they said overcrowding was an issue but it looks like it's still being used.

But that's $190 million there. And the cost to renovate Wootton is $300 million, Magruder is probably around that range too? They really can't find the money to renovate either of the schools?

This is one of the many reasons why people don't buy that they could find the money for Wootton and Magruder renovations if they actually wanted to.

They can find the money for anything they want. They don't want to. Just like they didn't want to keep the virtual school, which was not very expensive but benefited some students. Wootton is demanding immediate fixes. That's not realistic. You all could have waited but demanded a fix now, so you got one.

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Anonymous wrote:Honest question-- why do people care about the bus depot? What's the issue with that?

Where do you live? You want 250 diesel school buses starting up at 4 AM next to your home? You want 250 school buses on the road by your home all day? Offer up your street for a MCPS bus depot and Taylor will be thrilled.

+1

Driving a bus is hard.

But I used to commute by a MCPS bus depot. And the bus drivers block off traffic with their buses to help other buses drive in and out of the depot. Also they don't follow traffic rules, ie sit in the left lane and go straight on a left turn only lane.

So can imagine that it would cause issues during the times the buses come and leave the depot and putting one in a residential neighborhood doesn't seem like it's the best idea.

Two

Taylor is putting two bus depots in residential neighborhoods. One in the Northwest Cluster and one in the Wootton Cluster.

If anyone thinks that a bus depot will be approved on Cavanaugh Drive I've got a castle to sell you. The homeowners in Potomac Glen will fight big time over this. It's one thing to move a school, it's another thing to dump 200 school buses in a residential neighborhood. Besides, the land on Cavanaugh was set aside for a school not a bus depot. I highly doubt either the bus depot or the school are built anytime in the near future.

Where exactly is the site? At the intersection of Cavanaugh and Shady Grove Road? Across from the pool?

Yes, never going to be a bus depot there. There is not a single bus depot in the county in the midst of a residential neighborhood. Frankly, it would be located between Potomac Glen and the Willows. Add in the high volume of dump trucks already going up and down Shady Grove Road-nope not happening.

They are unquestionably going to use the old wootton site for the bus depot. Interior's a hazard, but that parking lot is just right.

Not usable at all. School parking lots can not be used to park buses. That fact was established years ago. This is a new site with $70M in funding from Taylor.

So CIP/capital improvement budget is different then the rest of the school budget. So that is why the money for the regional programs won't impact CIP or vice versa.

There is 50 million dollars allocated for the renovation of Cold Spring. Which many posters say is underenrolled and potentially slated to close.

But now we also have 70 million for the bus depot? So the other one is $70 million too?

Exactly what is wrong with the current bus depots they are trying to replace? I know they said overcrowding was an issue but it looks like it's still being used.

But that's $190 million there. And the cost to renovate Wootton is $300 million, Magruder is probably around that range too? They really can't find the money to renovate either of the schools?

The county would like to have the Shady Grove depot property to use for developing housing- more tax dollars to the county. So MCPS is on the hunt for a new bus depot location.

Keep the depot and give them the Wootton property for housing.

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Anonymous wrote:Honest question-- why do people care about the bus depot? What's the issue with that?

Where do you live? You want 250 diesel school buses starting up at 4 AM next to your home? You want 250 school buses on the road by your home all day? Offer up your street for a MCPS bus depot and Taylor will be thrilled.

+1

Driving a bus is hard.

But I used to commute by a MCPS bus depot. And the bus drivers block off traffic with their buses to help other buses drive in and out of the depot. Also they don't follow traffic rules, ie sit in the left lane and go straight on a left turn only lane.

So can imagine that it would cause issues during the times the buses come and leave the depot and putting one in a residential neighborhood doesn't seem like it's the best idea.

Two

Taylor is putting two bus depots in residential neighborhoods. One in the Northwest Cluster and one in the Wootton Cluster.

If anyone thinks that a bus depot will be approved on Cavanaugh Drive I've got a castle to sell you. The homeowners in Potomac Glen will fight big time over this. It's one thing to move a school, it's another thing to dump 200 school buses in a residential neighborhood. Besides, the land on Cavanaugh was set aside for a school not a bus depot. I highly doubt either the bus depot or the school are built anytime in the near future.

Where exactly is the site? At the intersection of Cavanaugh and Shady Grove Road? Across from the pool?

Yes, never going to be a bus depot there. There is not a single bus depot in the county in the midst of a residential neighborhood. Frankly, it would be located between Potomac Glen and the Willows. Add in the high volume of dump trucks already going up and down Shady Grove Road-nope not happening.

They are unquestionably going to use the old wootton site for the bus depot. Interior's a hazard, but that parking lot is just right.

Not usable at all. School parking lots can not be used to park buses. That fact was established years ago. This is a new site with $70M in funding from Taylor.

one, it won't be a school anymore at that point. two, I wouldn't count on "facts" that were established years ago. three, if it can save a buck, you better believe it will be considered.

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Anonymous wrote:Honest question-- why do people care about the bus depot? What's the issue with that?

Where do you live? You want 250 diesel school buses starting up at 4 AM next to your home? You want 250 school buses on the road by your home all day? Offer up your street for a MCPS bus depot and Taylor will be thrilled.

+1

Driving a bus is hard.

But I used to commute by a MCPS bus depot. And the bus drivers block off traffic with their buses to help other buses drive in and out of the depot. Also they don't follow traffic rules, ie sit in the left lane and go straight on a left turn only lane.

So can imagine that it would cause issues during the times the buses come and leave the depot and putting one in a residential neighborhood doesn't seem like it's the best idea.

Two

Taylor is putting two bus depots in residential neighborhoods. One in the Northwest Cluster and one in the Wootton Cluster.

If anyone thinks that a bus depot will be approved on Cavanaugh Drive I've got a castle to sell you. The homeowners in Potomac Glen will fight big time over this. It's one thing to move a school, it's another thing to dump 200 school buses in a residential neighborhood. Besides, the land on Cavanaugh was set aside for a school not a bus depot. I highly doubt either the bus depot or the school are built anytime in the near future.

Where exactly is the site? At the intersection of Cavanaugh and Shady Grove Road? Across from the pool?

Yes, never going to be a bus depot there. There is not a single bus depot in the county in the midst of a residential neighborhood. Frankly, it would be located between Potomac Glen and the Willows. Add in the high volume of dump trucks already going up and down Shady Grove Road-nope not happening.

The one on Randolph backs up to one residential neighborhood and is across the street from another.

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Anonymous wrote:Honest question-- why do people care about the bus depot? What's the issue with that?

Where do you live? You want 250 diesel school buses starting up at 4 AM next to your home? You want 250 school buses on the road by your home all day? Offer up your street for a MCPS bus depot and Taylor will be thrilled.

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Driving a bus is hard.

But I used to commute by a MCPS bus depot. And the bus drivers block off traffic with their buses to help other buses drive in and out of the depot. Also they don't follow traffic rules, ie sit in the left lane and go straight on a left turn only lane.

So can imagine that it would cause issues during the times the buses come and leave the depot and putting one in a residential neighborhood doesn't seem like it's the best idea.

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Taylor is putting two bus depots in residential neighborhoods. One in the Northwest Cluster and one in the Wootton Cluster.

If anyone thinks that a bus depot will be approved on Cavanaugh Drive I've got a castle to sell you. The homeowners in Potomac Glen will fight big time over this. It's one thing to move a school, it's another thing to dump 200 school buses in a residential neighborhood. Besides, the land on Cavanaugh was set aside for a school not a bus depot. I highly doubt either the bus depot or the school are built anytime in the near future.

Where exactly is the site? At the intersection of Cavanaugh and Shady Grove Road? Across from the pool?

Yes, never going to be a bus depot there. There is not a single bus depot in the county in the midst of a residential neighborhood. Frankly, it would be located between Potomac Glen and the Willows. Add in the high volume of dump trucks already going up and down Shady Grove Road-nope not happening.

They are unquestionably going to use the old wootton site for the bus depot. Interior's a hazard, but that parking lot is just right.

Not usable at all. School parking lots can not be used to park buses. That fact was established years ago. This is a new site with $70M in funding from Taylor.

one, it won't be a school anymore at that point. two, I wouldn't count on "facts" that were established years ago. three, if it can save a buck, you better believe it will be considered.

It's not a school now - this is the not-yet-existent Wootton Elementary School site that they're talking about for the bus depot.

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Anonymous wrote:Honest question-- why do people care about the bus depot? What's the issue with that?

Where do you live? You want 250 diesel school buses starting up at 4 AM next to your home? You want 250 school buses on the road by your home all day? Offer up your street for a MCPS bus depot and Taylor will be thrilled.

+1

Driving a bus is hard.

But I used to commute by a MCPS bus depot. And the bus drivers block off traffic with their buses to help other buses drive in and out of the depot. Also they don't follow traffic rules, ie sit in the left lane and go straight on a left turn only lane.

So can imagine that it would cause issues during the times the buses come and leave the depot and putting one in a residential neighborhood doesn't seem like it's the best idea.

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Taylor is putting two bus depots in residential neighborhoods. One in the Northwest Cluster and one in the Wootton Cluster.

If anyone thinks that a bus depot will be approved on Cavanaugh Drive I've got a castle to sell you. The homeowners in Potomac Glen will fight big time over this. It's one thing to move a school, it's another thing to dump 200 school buses in a residential neighborhood. Besides, the land on Cavanaugh was set aside for a school not a bus depot. I highly doubt either the bus depot or the school are built anytime in the near future.

Where exactly is the site? At the intersection of Cavanaugh and Shady Grove Road? Across from the pool?

Yes, never going to be a bus depot there. There is not a single bus depot in the county in the midst of a residential neighborhood. Frankly, it would be located between Potomac Glen and the Willows. Add in the high volume of dump trucks already going up and down Shady Grove Road-nope not happening.

The one on Randolph backs up to one residential neighborhood and is across the street from another.

Street = 8 lanes of traffic versus a two lane road.